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Mood is an inner feeling of oneself relative to our environment. Your mood is the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you are in a good mood, you feel cheerful, if you are in a bad mood you feel angry and impatient.A Mood killer is a person or anything that can ruin your mood extremely quickly with/ out attempting to.

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Ever felt that the world is full of idiots strategically distributed so you can meet at least one person every day to spoil your mood?

For the purpose of this article, I would like to divide mood killers into 3: mood killers of #PEOPLE, #PLACE AND #TIME this is because mood killers can come in the form of a person, it can occur in a place or against time.

MOOD KILLERS FOR PEOPLE.

• ‘Heartbreak’ is a classic example.
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You got to your boyfriends' house and caught him cheating on you with your best friend. you feel depressed, angry, sad, you start having trust issues. This would definitely spoil your mood.

• POVERTY
  We all know in our society that money is pivotal to everything. You need money to be able to carry out your daily activities. Poverty is another mood killer when you remember your financial state at any point in time, it depresses your mood. Any reminder about money would spoil your mood for that day.

• BAD NEWS.

You woke up one morning very happy and you are going about your normal activities, suddenly your phone rings and your sibling is on the line, he informs you that you just lost your father and that you would be required to assume full responsibilities as the next head of the house.

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You just got to work and you received a letter on your desk, you opened it and read the contents slowly…Dear Mr x.. we are sorry to inform you that your services in our organization would no longer be required.

There are a lot of other mood killers for a person e.g sickness is a mood killer because you might not have the energy to do the things that you love to do that brings joy, an accident is another example, depression, frustration, having a bully as a boss, colleague, even a false allegation may kill your mood etc

MOOD KILLER FOR A PLACE.

Lady K is a beautiful single lady that attended a best friends wedding, her married friends kept asking her when she would get married so that she could invite them as well. To make matters worse, she does not even have a boyfriend, talk more of having a fiancé yet alone planning a wedding. this is definitely a mood killer for lady K to attend weddings because she would not want a constant reminder of how single she is and how it’s time for her to get married.

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Mrs. Q has been married for some years with no children and she happens to be invited to a naming ceremony/ child dedication of a close friend that just got married recently, she honors the invitation only to meet people that know about her marriage. They remind her of how they have been praying for her, of how God would soon answer her prayers etc. this might kill Mrs. Q ’s mood at that particular occasion and she may want to leave early to save her self from the embarrassment.

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Let's assume you are asthmatic and you get to a gathering where half of the people in that gathering are smoking and you were there to have mad fun, but you cant have the fun no more because of your peculiar situation. This would definitely spoil your mood at that particular time.

Here is another example ‘You are going to an important event, and you are dressed to kill(pepper them gang things), you drove to the event. As you are about to make an entrance, you slipped and fell into a waterlogged ditch with your entire attire messed up, you would have no option but to drive back home in a bad mood.

MOOD KILLERS OF TIME.

Procrastination is the thief of time they say. For instance, you are working on a tight deadline for a particular project and you keep procrastinating until the 11th hour when you have to hurry up to complete the project, and unfortunately, your system got bad and anything that could go wrong went wrong at that particular time. You sob ‘God why me? today of all days?

Despite putting all your effort you still could not achieve the results you wanted. This is a mood killer and it might lead to a transferred aggression and depression in the long run.

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You are a female guest speaker at a professional gathering, you had to dress in an all-white attire according to the dress code of the day. You are already seated and the MC announces your lecture. As you are about to make an entrance to the stage, someone points out to you that you have been stained, then it dawned on you that your 'period' according to your calculation was nearby and it must have come earlier. This is a mood killer of time because your period chose the wrong time to come.

Let me give a personal experience, I was invited for an interview in a different state, I somehow got delayed and I had to leave late. Unfortunately for me, the journey had so many delays and I arrived very late in the lee hours of the morning in a strange land. I reached to make a phone call, only to find out that all my phones were stolen! Fast forward, I made it to the interview very late and I was sent back at the gate. All my efforts, stress, incurred expenses were all thrown into the dustbin.

This is a mood killer of time because firstly, I left home late. Secondly, despite the fact that I made it to the ‘state’ on time, I was late for the interview. So you see sometimes, you are not in control of your time and this can spoil your mood if you are a control freak.

I am sure most Nigerians can ‘relate’ this example, let say you are watching your favorite TV program, as it gets very interesting, PHCN(Power Holding Company in Nigeria) ceases power, you quickly go to put on your generator, Your generator refuses to start because of a minor technical fault (probably you forgot to put engine oil). You actually have nobody to blame for this lol.

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We don’t always pray for bad things to happen to us, we always hope to be in a good mood, but life happens and there is nothing we can do about it. If we could predict the future, we can avert the mood killers, but its unfortunate, we cant! Too bad!!

I would love to hear some of your mood killers with respect to time, place and person. Feel free to share your experiences in the comment section. Looking forward to reading from you all in the comment section.

@antigenx
23/05/2018